LATEST FROM INDIA. [From the Melbourne Herald.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 491, 17 April 1850, Page 3

LATEST FROM INDIA. [From the Melbourne Herald.]

- We have received per private hand a file of Singapore papers to the 25th December, from which we extract the annexed items : — Tigers wers exceedingly troublesome in many localities, where the settlers were nightly plundered of their cattle : several hot pursuits were made and many of the terrors of the jungle paid dearly for their daring inroads. , Advices had been received from Calcutta to to December 3rd. The barque Lady Sale, bound from Madras to Calcutta, was wrecked near the mouth of the Calangpatam River, crew saved, as also part of the cargo. A letter from the north-west describe* the health of the Governor-General so much restored, that in all probability bis Excellency will abandon the rr jjected sea trip, and spend his Chrismas at Mooltan. Amongst the deaths recorded is that of Captain Ross, Master-Attendant at the Port of Bombay, in the 5,4 th year of his age. Among the new projects of the day (and which was causing much interest) was one for the establishment of a Calcutta Steam Laundry, which was to be opened about the middle of December last. The object of the proprietor is, in the first place, to benefit himself, and in the next, to save the clothes of the community from being thrashed to pieces, by the native " Dobies," who have no idea of washing clothes but by ' bearing' the dirt of out of them, according to the practice which prevailed in the golden age of Munoo. In the military world all was comparatively quiet. Colonel Lawrence, with some cavalry, ii.fantry, and horse artillery, was busily employed in bringing the inhabitants of Peshawa into a complete state of subjection, and in putling a stop to the thieving propensities of the inhabitants round about Peshawar. Drs* Campell and H(ok;r, who had ventured into the territory of Sekim Rajah, ha\e been made captives ; the Rajah declares he will not release them until he receive! an answer to a letter he sent two years ago to the Governor General. Troops were on the move, and it is [ thought the Rajah would not have ventured on so bold a step unless encouraged by the authorities at Nepaul.